Holiday Ayo - Talking about sweet, delicious, and soft food will never end, Especially for certain events. Have you ever tried a strawberry shortcake?

A shortcake is a sponge cake or biscuit.

Shortcake topped with fruit and whipped cream. This dessert is made from flour, sugar, baking powder, or baking soda, salt, butter, milk, or cream, and sometimes eggs. The topping of this cake is Strawberry.

Strawberry is a fruit that is loved by many people, more than beautiful in shape and color, Strawberries also have a fresh sweet, and sour taste. As strawberries become more and more popular, there are more and more ways people can enjoy them. one of them is by making a strawberry shortcake.

For the Japanese, the cake on Christmas day is very important. In December as it is today, there are a lot of cake requests and orders to bakeries, supermarkets, and department stores. And usually, the classic Christmas cake in Japan is a strawberry shortcake, with a soft and light sponge creation, and chantilly cream or whipped cream. Although there are many other cake creations that many people are interested in too.

Cited from Kompas.com, this cake was first presented at Fujiya Shop, which is the first western-style cake shop in Japan founded by Rin'emon Fujii.

This cake later became popular and liked by many Japanese people.

The beginning of the presence of Strawberry shortcake stems from Rin'emon Fujii who wanted to hone his skills in processing pastry in the United States. It was there that Fujii first tried the strawberry shortcake and loved it. A year later Fuji returned to Japan and made his own version of strawberry shortcake.

Fujii's cake is a soft layered sponge cake covered with velvet cream with candied strawberries on top. This cake is considered a luxury and is often used as a dessert menu on special occasions.